Corinth Object: C 2013 63
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2013 63
Title:   ATTIC RED SLIP WITH PINWHEEL STAMP
Category Code:   C
Year:   2013
Object Number:   63
Description:   Dish, probably AfRS Form 59, 61, 62, or 64. Flat, wide base slightly thinner toward center (0.0075 vs. 0.0083 closer to rim).
Decoration:   Red slip on interior. Two stamped pinwheel rosettes with 12 petals and central dot, surrounded by small globules, set in circle around dish bottom, encircled by two grooves. Cf. Kubler 1931 Abb. 4.11; imitating AfRS Style A, possibly iii, assuming rosettes continue in full circle.
Material:   Hard reddish yellow clay, quite grainy, with large white, gray, black, and yellow inclusions and common large mica flecks. Slip half a shade darker, very laminar, comes off in flakes.
Munsell Color:   Core: 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow), Slip: 5YR 6/8 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. 1 fragment. Base of wide bowl or plate, no edges preserved. Slip on vessel interior only, flaking off.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Preserved:   L. 0.087, W. 0.081
Weight Description:   0.055
Weight:   0.055
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Stamped Attic red slip: Late 4th-mid 5th century (LRP p. 408); for motif, cf. Corinth C-1984-147 (late 4th-5th cent, Hesp. 1985 p79 #47); for the stamp style, probably Style A(iii) with single band of repeated motif, dated c. 410-470 (LRP p. 219)
Area:   Nezi Field
Context:   Nezi Field, context 1080, LOT 2013 008
Provenance:   Athens, Kerameikos
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Nezi Field
Image: digital 2013 0807
Basket: Nezi Field, context 1080